Tag: By Sam Kerbel
Sam Kerbel: Best Battle Royale of 2011: Chomsky vs. Hitchens
December 2011 |
Guernica recalls the ferocious (and prose-laden, foreign policy-focused, and politically savvy) battle of heavyweights. |
Sam Kerbel: Top 3 Book Review Take-Downs
December 2011 |
A sample of this year’s most linguistically creative and intellectually exasperating spankings. |
Sam Kerbel: The Tree of Lacrimosa
September 2011 |
Zbigniew Preisner’s Requiem for my friend headlines a magnificent score that complements the sublimity of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. |
Sam Kerbel: On Cultism and Ascending to Valhalla: The Media’s Reaction to the Abramson Appointment
June 2011 |
The Wall Street Journal and Commentary’s condescending remarks about the first female editor of the New York Times reveal an underlying sexism. |
Sam Kerbel: Rec Room: Bruno Schulz
March 2011 |
Frightening at times, uplifting at others, the liminal, dreamlike spaces of Bruno Schulz’s fiction are rare amongst even our most imaginative artists. |
Sam Kerbel: Memoir Wars
February 2011 |
Neil Genzlinger of the NYT charges that the contemporary memoir is dull, “unexceptional,” and evidence of “the current age of oversharing.” Maybe. But what about speaking for the unheard? |
